Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by THP trooper Isaiah Lloyd, speaks publicly about her experience for the first time at Herbert S. Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel)

Patricia Aileen Wilson is tired of being labeled as the woman “groped” by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper.

“I was scared,” she told USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee. “I’ve never been pulled out of a vehicle by a police officer. I was completely helpless. Was I going to jail? Was he going to say I failed the field sobriety tests? I’m a single mom and sole provider for two kids.”

Wilson was even more frightened the second time – within three hours of a search in which State Trooper Isaiah Lloyd put his hands inside her shorts – Lloyd stopped her again, minutes from her home.

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THP dashcam video shows two traffic stops made by trooper Isaiah Lloyd, who is accused of groping a Campbell County mother during a traffic stop and pulling her over again three hours later.
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“Was I going to be pulled out of the car again?” she wondered. “Would I be searched again? How far was this guy going to go this time?”

'This can't be OK'

Wilson is now at the center of a media firestorm over video of Lloyd’s August search inside Wilson’s low-waisted shorts at a time when sexual harassment has spawned a “Me, too” movement.

Isaiah Lloyd(Photo: THP)

But Wilson isn’t saying, me, too. She’s saying, “It’s not OK.” And she wants the public to know that what happened to her was an abuse of power, not sex.

“How is it OK to say, ‘I think you’re on drugs,’ and just stick your hands down my pants?” she said in an interview Tuesday alongside attorneys Jeffrey Coller and Herbert S. Moncier.

“In my head, I’m telling him, ‘No, this isn’t right,’ but I’m not a lawyer so I’m thinking he has the right to search me and could take me to jail … And, then, not even a quarter-mile from my home, he pulls out behind me. I felt like I was being stalked. This can’t be OK.”

Coller and Moncier filed a lawsuit on Wilson’s behalf earlier this year. She's kept quiet since then but broke her silence Tuesday in two exclusive interviews - one with USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee and another with the television show "Inside Edition," which is expected to air Wednesday.

Attorney Herbert S. Moncier listens during an interview with his client Patricia Wilson in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel)

THP has ordered up remedial training for Lloyd and issued an “oral counseling” notice after reviewing all his traffic stops as a result of Wilson’s lawsuit, state Department of Safety and Homeland Security spokeswoman Megan Buell said Tuesday.

"We saw no criminal intent on the video," Buell said. "He's been orally counseled on his search techniques."

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James A.H. Bell, attorney for Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, speaks to the media. Lloyd has been accused of groping a Campbell County mother during a traffic stop.
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THP records provided at USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee's request show Lloyd told internal investigators "he was instructed at the THP training academy during cadet school to go inside the waistband area while conducting a pat down" search.

But THP training commanders countered "it is not part of (the) training curriculum to go inside the waistband during a pat down."

'Why did you pull me over?'

Wilson, 29, was headed to Knoxville for a shift cleaning a building. She was dressed in low-waisted shorts, a T-shirt and camisole. She readily admits she wasn’t wearing a seat belt.

Lloyd stopped her truck on Interstate 75 in Campbell County.

“He told me he was pulling me over for a seat-belt ticket and then proceeded to tell me I looked like I was on drugs,” she said.

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From left, attorney Jeffrey Coller, his client Patricia Wilson and attorney Herb Moncier speak at Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
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A television crew streams the interviewer on a phone at Herbert S. Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Monday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
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Attorney Jeffrey Coller is puts on a microphone for a television interview at Herbert S. Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
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Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by THP trooper Isaiah Lloyd, speaks publicly about her experience for the first time at Herbert S. Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018.
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Attorney Jeffrey Coller listens during an interview at Herbert S. Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
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Attorneys Jeffrey Coller and Herbert Moncier speak in Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
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Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by THP trooper Isaiah Lloyd, speaks publicly about her experience for the first time at Herbert S. Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018.
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Attorney Herbert S. Moncier listens during an interview with his client Patricia Wilson in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
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From left, attorney Jeffrey Coller, his client Patricia Wilson and attorney Herb Moncier speak at Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
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Attorneys Jeffrey Coller and Herbert Moncier speak in Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
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Footage from Lloyd’s dash cam bears that out. Wilson denied any drug or alcohol use. Lloyd ordered her out of the truck, told her to lean forward onto the hood of his cruiser, stood within inches of her and “put his hands all the way down the front” of her shorts and then ran his fingers around her waistband.

Lloyd quizzed her on whether she had taken prescription drugs. She again denied it. The dash cam footage does not show Wilson exhibiting any signs of intoxication, but Lloyd then subjected her to two field sobriety tests.

He left her unguarded – along with a female passenger – as he backed up his cruiser to carry out one of those tests.

From left, attorney Jeffrey Coller, his client Patricia Wilson and attorney Herb Moncier speak at Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel)

Lloyd used Wilson’s driver’s license, which listed her address, to write Wilson a ticket. Three hours later, dash cam footage showed, Lloyd was parked alongside a county road minutes from Wilson’s home and immediately made a U-turn to follow Wilson’s truck as she drove past. It was dark outside.

Trooper's body mic wasn't working

This time, his body microphone wasn’t working – though Wilson only learned that recently. Lloyd denied in the internal review that he turned off the microphone and contended he now believes the battery "went dead." He said he sought a replacement microphone at some point after the Wilson stops, according to THP records.

A state prosecutor is criticizing the actions of a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper accused of groping a Campbell County woman he twice pulled over within three hours as “inconsistent with his training” and his agency’s own rulebook.
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“I want that audio,” she said. “It will prove what he said … He came up to the window and said, ‘We have to stop meeting like this.'

"I felt that was a come-on. I asked, ‘Why did you pull me over?’”

Her son then spoke, she said, drawing Lloyd’s attention to her two children – ages 8 and 4 – seated in the truck but not immediately visible as the trooper approached the truck. She said he asked if the children were properly buckled but made no move to check.

“He told me I was swerving all over the road, and my (window) tint was too dark,” she said.

The truck was not seen swerving on Lloyd’s dash cam footage before the stop.

“Then he started asking me questions about where I was going,” she said. “It scared me. I told him, ‘I will go home and take every bit of this tint off. Just please let me go home.”

Wilson said Lloyd told her “he had already got me out of two tickets today” and let her leave.

Attorney Jeffrey Coller listens during an interview at Herbert S. Moncier's office in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Patricia Wilson, a Campbell County woman who was allegedly groped by Trooper Isaiah Lloyd, spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel)

'I'm not asking for him to lose his job'

She went to Coller for advice days after the encounter when a friend suggested the trooper’s actions were improper. Coller soon enlisted Moncier, a veteran constitutional lawyer, and the pair filed suit in Campbell County Circuit Court.

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Attorney Herbert Moncier urges all women who have been mistreated to come forward on March 6, 2018.
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The lawsuit was the first notice THP had about Lloyd’s behavior and prompted both the agency’s internal probe and Effler’s review, Homeland Security's Buell said.

Lloyd has been returned to active duty. Wilson said Tuesday she doesn’t want to cost Lloyd his job or his liberty. She said she filed a lawsuit to force THP to take action to safeguard other motorists, especially women.

“I’m not asking for him to lose his job. I’m not asking him to go to jail. He may be a good officer but when it comes to searches … I want that he gets trained properly and that no other women have to go through what I had to go through.